Hurricane Matthew - the monster storm that's slamming the coast of Florida right now - has everything to do with climate change. I’ll explain….

Deborah Menkart, Teaching For Change/Zinn Education Project & Daniel Ruiz, Capital City Public Charter School, joins Thom. On Monday - millions of Americans will stay home from work and school to celebrate how Christopher Columbus committed genocide against the Taino people and launched the Transatlantic slave trade. Unfortunately - many Americans won't know that it's a celebration of genocide - because many Americans still don't realize what actually happened when Columbus quote "discovered” America. Fortunately there are efforts moving forward across the country to celebrate "Indigenous People’s Day" instead of Columbus Day - with Phoenix, Arizona being the most recent city to recognize Indigenous People's Day.

Dr. Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research (C.E.P.R.)/Just Foreign Policy/FAILED: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy, joins Thom. With his calls for massive tax cuts on the rich - you'd expect Donald Trump to make fast friends with America's financial elites. But it turns out that the banksters on Wall Street might be the biggest obstacle standing between him and the White House

Obamacare works well for a lot of people but will never totally fix the problem. And why is that? Easy -- it’s because Obamacare, for all the good things it does, like do away with discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions and providing free healthcare for low-income people, still keeps in place the for-profit health insurance system for most of us. So in a way, Bill Clinton is right about Obamacare being crazy, just not in the way Republicans are saying.